News About Pale Mimosa

Following a fine fourth in the Melbourne Cup during the spring, the Darren Weir-trained Signoff has opened top of the futures Sydney Cup 2015 odds for this autumn. An ultra-consistent Authorized gelding, five-year-old Signoff has won seven of his 14 starts to date. He worked his way up through the ranks last campaign running well…

Top hoop Kerrin McEvoy who this week resigned as Godolphin’s Australian stable jockey still has a host of plumb rides in the majors this Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival including Johnny Murtagh’s Irish raider Mutual Regard in the Melbourne Cup 2014. There are officially 147 horses heading towards a run in this year’s $6.2 million Group…

Earlier today Racing Victoria’s chief handicapper Greg Carpenter released the 2014 Melbourne Cup weights with the heaviest weighted mare for the Flemington feature being Silent Achiever with 56.5kg. In his 10th year allocating the weights for the world’s richest handicap, Carpenter handicapped 148 horses for this season’s $6.2 million Group 1 Emirates Melbourne Cup (3200m)…

Dual Melbourne Cup winning horseman Dermot K Weld will be without a hope in the 2014 edition of the ‘race that stops a nation’ following the surprise withdrawal of two high profile international hopes. On Sunday night a number of overseas-trained stayers nominated for the $6.2 million Group 1 Emirates Melbourne Cup (3200m) failed to…

Today the first step towards the first Tuesday of November’s iconic Flemington race was made by the connections of the 148 horses nominated for the 2014 Melbourne Cup including 31 international raiders. A record number of horses trained outside of Australia and New Zealand feature in the nominations for this year’s $6.2 million Group 1…

Two more international raiders have officially entered Caulfield Cup 2014 calculations with late nominations for the famous mile and a half handicap taken by Racing Victoria this week. Back on August 5 there were 221 entries taken for the $3.15 million Group 1 Crown Golden Ale Caulfield Cup (2400m) including a record number of international…

York’s Lonsdale Cup Carnival over the weekend in England threw up a number of livewire Melbourne Cup 2014 international hopes for the spring down under including Mutual Regard – winner of the Ebor Handicap. A day after Dermot Weld revealed a possible contender for the $6.2 million Group 1 Emirates Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington…

Ace Irish horseman Dermot Weld could be lured back down under for a third shot at the ‘race that stops a nation’ with Melbourne Cup 2014 plans brewing for the weekend’s Lonsdale Cup winner Pale Mimosa. Weld was the first trainer to prepare an international Melbourne Cup winner back in 1993 when Vintage Crop made…

The 2014 Melbourne Cup bids of a number of top international stayers will go on in the line in York this evening with a handful of chances for the world’s richest handicap running in the Group 2 Lonsdale Cup (3200m). Held over the same distance as the iconic two-mile $6.2 million Group 1 Emirates Melbourne…